Auguste Thibaut, Assumption Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller



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Auguste Thibaut, cashier of the Bank of Napoleonville, Louisiana, was
born at Donaldsonville, Louisiana, March 2, 1862, and is a son of
Auguste and Elmina (Melancon) Thibaut.  His grandfather, John Thibaut,
was born at New Orleans, where he resided his entire life, reaching
the remarkable age of ninety-six years.  He was a sugar broker and
sugar planter and one of the pioneers of the industry in Louisiana.
Mr. Thibaut married Miss Adele Dubourg, who was born at New Orleans
and passed her life there, She was a niece of Archbishop Dubourg, and
likewise a niece of the first grand master of Masonry in Louisiana,
Pierre Dubourg.

Auguste Thibaut, the elder, was born in 1832, in the Parish of
Ascension, Louisiana, where he was reared and received his early
education, later attending college and receiving the degree of Doctor
of Medicine.  He became a distinguished physician an surgeon, and for
some years practiced his profession in Ascension Parish, where he was
married, but eventually moved to Donaldsonville, where he continued to
follow his calling with increasing success until his death in 1867, at
the early age of thirty-five years.  He was a member of the Roman
Catholic Church.  Doctor Thibaut married Elmina Melancon, who was born
in 1843, in the Parish of Ascension, and died at Donaldsonville in
1895.

Auguste Thibaut, of this review, was educated in private schools at
Donaldsonville and at Spring Hill college, Mobile, Alabama, where he
completed his junior year in 1878, at that the securing a position
with the old Crescent City Sugar Refinery Company at New Orleans.
After two years with this concern he became cashier for P. M. Kelly &
Son, sugar brokers, with whom he remained three years, and then began
a personal experience in sugar planting in the Parish of Assumption.
This he continued until 1895, when he became the first cashier of the
Bank of Napoleonville, a position which he has retained to the
present.  This institution was thrown open for business in September,
1895, and at present has a capital of $30,000, surplus and profits of
$l00,000, and deposits of $350,000.  It is one of the conservative and
reliable institutions of its part of the state, and has the full
confidence of the community.  Its present officers are: E. Sundbery,
president; L. Corde, vice president; Auguste Thibaut, cashier; and
F. J. Rodrigue, assistant cashier.

Mr. Thibaut is the owner of a handsome home and ten acres of land
situated seven-tenths of a mile south of Napoleonville, on the east
bank of Bayou Lafourche.  He is vice president of the Glenwood Sugars,
Inc., a corporation which operates Glenwood Plantation, situated
one-half mile north of Napoleonville, on the west bank of Bayou
Lafourche, comprising 1.000 acres.  This corporation operates its own
sugar refinery. In his political allegiance Mr. Thibaut is a
republican.  He has a number of business and social connections and is
interested in civic welfare.

On January 31, 1888, in the Parish of St. Martin, Louisiana,
Mr. Thibaut was united in marriage with Miss Lucie Lastrapes, who was
born in that parish, and is a graduate of Emmettsburg (Maryland)
College.  They are the parents of four sons and one daughter.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 320-321, by Henry E. Chambers.
Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New
York, 1925.